Insight may enable innovative approach for new concepts in the fight against neurodegenerative diseases

The transparent nematode C. elegans, only 1 millimeter in length, has characteristics which include a short life cycle and a fixed number of cells. It serves as a model organism primarily for research in developmental biology, genetics, and neurobiology. Credit: Dr. Andreas Kern, Mainz University Medical Center

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In addition to the Mainz-based team, biochemists from Goethe University Frankfurt am Main were also involved in the research project that stretched over several years. This received funding from a wide range of organizations, including the Alzheimer Forschung Initiative e.V., the German Research Foundation (DFG) – also within the framework of the Collaborative Research Center 1080: “Molecular and cellular mechanisms of neural homoeostasis” -, the European Research Council (ERC), and a number of foundations.